The Coalition of Political Parties says  it did not endorse the re-election of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje as it is a national coalition focused on taking presidential power via constitutional means and protection of national interest and not for state jamboree

THE Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has said that the mandate Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State stole will be retrieved, adding that he should enjoy his interim second term without dragging the CUPP into his quest for legitimacy.

The national headquarters of the CUPP also dissociated itself from a group that called itself the Kano State chapter of the coalition and used its platform to endorse Governor Ganduje.

The group, led by one Isah Nuhu Isah, was said to have paid a solidarity visit to Ganduje during which it claimed that 42 parties that made up the coalition in the state have dropped thier plan to challenge Ganduje’s victory at the just-concluded supplementary election before the tribunal.

“We make bold to say that the CUPP is a national coalition formed to work for the emergence of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the protection of national interest.

“The coalition is not meant for any state jamboree as being witnessed in Kano.

“For the avoidance of any doubt, the position of the CUPP remains that Ganduje is parading a stolen mandate that will be retrieved from him,” a statement issued by Ikenga Ugochinyere, spokesperson of CUPP said..

According to him., “the recruitment of APC agents from Ganduje Village to come under the name of CUPP to support the stolen mandate he is parading is laughable and a show of the political inexperience of Ganduje which led to his disgraceful outing at the ballot in the first place.

“The coalition therefore has not, and will never endorse him because we will not be part of the illegality that foisted him on the people of Kano State who roundly rejected him as seen during the election.”

– Mar. 28, 2019 @ 16:15 GMT |